Connecticut western news., 1887-01-12
THE WORLDS NBWSIN BRIEF
Interesting Gatherings from
 all Points.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE OLD
 WORLD AND THE NEW.
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 Notes, Ktc., Etc.

lle MlnneSola Legislature elected CIlSl- man II. Davis (tep.) for U. s. Senator.
 Two trains collided in the streets of Chicago. Four passengers were injured
 The jury in the famous ssElkin conspiracy case' in Philadelphia failed to agree upon verdict and were discharged.
 Hon. Eugene Hale was renominated for the Senate by the Legislature of Maine.
 The Fitchbrg Railroad Company has se- cured exclusive ownership of the Hoosac Tun- nel.
 The number of deaths caused by the dis aster on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ap- pears to be at least thirteen. Three boys killed several fatally hurt and others moro or less injured is the result of coasting accidents reported ir one day.
 An explosion of natural gas at Youngs- town, Ohio, caused a fire with loss of S1OO OOO and the supposed loss of human life
 Governor Bodwell of Maine recommends prohibitory tariff on Canadian fish as retaIia- tion for their ugliness on the fishery question.
 George D. Smelling, lawer, whose mind was unbalanced by overwOrk, shot himself at Ionkers, N. !. through fear of the insane asy- lum.
 -Dynamiters, supposed to be strikers, at tempted to blow up a section of the cable road in San Francisco, and effected considerable damage.
 Collector Warren, of Cape Vincent. \. Y., has seized the Canadian tug Thistle of ColiuG- wood. for towing American boats in American waters.
 An expected rising in Chihuahua. lIexi- has led the national government to concentrate several thousand troops suspicionsly near the Rio Grande.
 James Edward Nowlin, lad eighteen years old, confessed to murdering the milkman whose scattered remains were found ill Lex ington, Mass.
 It is supposed that thc'man who committed fr,,,t1 tbc S,vn Cr1, at Niagara Falls is young boohkeepcr Of Buff falo, named Cutting. A post-mortem examination of the bodies of Joseph, John and Eugene, the children of Joseph Mauri, the Brooklyn, N. Y., druggist, who died within twenty four hours of each other, shows their deaths were caused by malignant smallpox.
 The Reliance Machine Works of l.. P. Allis 6 Co., Ill Milwaukee, caught fire in tho core room of the foundry department. The fire blazed fierceiy for two hours, but was confined to the foundry building, the progress being staid by fire wall. E. P. Allis, Jr., a member Of the firm, estimates the loss at Ss50 GOO. At Springfield, H.. Thomas Johnson ate hls thlrtieth quail, on wager that he would cat 50 ln 50 days between the hours of and TOT two more, getting away with the three in llttle over eight minutes. He is rough in appearance and weighs 1855 pounds. He said the last bird tasted as good as the first.
 A new general election is to he ordered ill Canada in,nlt diately. Earthquake shocks have been felt in Vir- glnia, Maryland, and South Carolina. The ice castle at Montreal for the carnival is we'll under way, and will be an imposing affair.
 The [ ermometer at the County House, Watertown, NY, on Jan 3l indicated 40 deg. below zero.
 A young won,ss,, while singing lullaby to her infant, in FrederictCn N. B., was accident ally shot dead.
 The legislature selected William NJ. Stew | art Gepubhcan) as the candidate for United | States Senator.
 Hanover. New Hampshire, was damaged ] to the extont of SI3o,O00hy fire which broke | out iii the Dartmouth Hotel. The City clerk of Cambridge, Mass, un- able to make good the amount of his defalca- tlon 2,600l, committed suicide. I ss.-The noted expsess robbers of Missouri | pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to seven | years for Witrock (Jim Cummings) and Haight, and five years for Weaver. -Benjamin Trey, of Parkersford, who in November last was elected Sheriff of Chester | county, Pa, was run over and killed by milk | train on the Pennsylvania railroad | The British steamship Cranbrook, which | left Newport, Wales, for New York on Nov. 30 | has not since been heGrl from, and her New | York agents fear she has been lost with all on | board. SLe was a freight vessel of ,246 tons l net measurement. | A sad accident occurred on the Boston and | Albany Railroad near Mittineague, Mass. The .'Modoc' train from Albany. approaching the | depot an hour lelind time. was wrecked some | of the cars taking fire. One passenger was | burned to death and ;i number of persons were | injured severely.
 | WASHINGTON | The Soma tp nasScd tl,n hi to r,ension Mrs | Gen. Logan.
 | The House of Representatives passed the Indian and Military Academy Appropriation bills. The former appropratos s5,l15,00o.
 -The public debt statement shows that tn c decrease of the public deD. during. tile montl Ii | or Decembef was S9.35S, ,202.3 Total cash in the Treasury, S444, ,9l5, 79l.
 Secretary of State Lamar was married at Macon, Ga.. to Mrs. Holt, the lady to whom he was engaged thirty Scats ago, and of whose en' GaSement romantic story is told.
 In the Senate Mir. Mitchell, of Pennsyl- vania, from the Committee on Pensions rc- | ported bill granting a pension of S2, coo a year to the widow of General John X. Logan.
 The pension appropriation bill, providing for an expenditure of S76, ,247 300 was passed by the House without amendment or dis cussion The sum appropriated Is only $5, O0C below the estimates.
 Tine House Naval Committee agreed to re
 
 for the navy, two to be of the size of the New ark, costing Sl 500 600 each, the other four tt be of ,0O0 tons burden and 10 cost S1, 100,O COX or Sl, POO, coo each.
 General Superintendent Jameson, of the Hallway Mail Service has received informa iion that fourteen pouches of letter mail ant about truck load of paper mail we're butnetl in the wreck of the Baltimore and Ohio Raj way train at Tiffin, Ohio.
 The River and Harbor Committee have .tp,l 1.~t priating about S7, ,OOO, 900 for the improvem on of rivers and harbors. The engineers repor that $50, 900, 900 could be expended to advant age. This amount the committee has cut dowI
 thrce-quarters.
 --Ir. Webers bill providing for working free the Erie and Oswego canals came up il the House. The proposition is to pay tn, State of New York S5,O0O, 900 upon the com pletion of certain repairs and the abandon
 ment of tolls. This money is to be provided
 by the sale of two and half per cent. bonds
 It is not the expectation that anything can b done at this session, but it is hoped by tn
 friends of the measure that the full repor
 made upon the project by the Committee ol
 Railways and Canals will serve to keep it he
 fore the public and make it prominent in tn
 next Congress.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 Russian authorities deny the report of tn,
 Czar being insane.
 | run -Aucl say tndt lnc
 commander there has captured the ringleader
 in the massacre of boats crew from the Pen , guin
 , disastrous fire has occurred on Wood } street, London, affecting the property o
 twenty-five persons. The damage is enor IF ols. It Is impossible to estimate the loss a present.
 The wheat harvest in Victoria, Australia is 12,O00 000 bushels, an average of twev bushels per acre. Tho cxportable excess i : l5o,0oo tons, or 6l,000 tons over that of tn ] proceeding year. While Warden Bauer of tine Geological Gar , dcns at Berlin. was in the cage of the sea hors